Description
Lent is the ideal time to identify and address “spiritual blind spots”—unacknowledged emotional wounds and false ideas that hinder your prayer life and worship.
All through each week of Lent, Ken Kniepmann of the John Paul II Healing Center breaks open one of the vital seven deadly sins (pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, anger, envy, and greed) and its corresponding virtue (humility, chastity, abstinence, diligence, patience, kindness, and liberality). You’ll be able to start by learning about the sin and how it manifests itself in daily life and thought patterns. Then You’ll be able to move into reflection and prayer exercises that guide you through the process of renouncing that week’s sin and resolving to adopt that week’s virtue.
Fasting, the practice of giving up pleasures or comforts, allows us to grow in holiness by putting our desires to one of those death. Obvious examples include giving up a habit such as a favorite food, sleeping in, or late-night TV—but what happens when you try to surrender your sins whilst recognizing the deeper reasons you commit them in the first place? By seeing those connections and praying specifically for God’s insight, healing, and revelation, you’ll be capable of experience God’s mercy and love to a greater capacity.
Kniepmann helps you see how the depth of Catholic teaching is connected to your daily life. Sin is not only an activity; this is a place of the heart (the interior life) and the movement of the heart (toward or away from sin) as related to thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. By the time Easter arrives, You’ll be able to possess a deeper understanding of sin and emotional wounds as impediments to intimacy with God and come away with tangible, practical tools for addressing those impediments in your life.